The reception history of Hegel’s philosophy has been largely shaped by his lectures. However, manuscripts of these lectures have only survived fragmentarily—except for the manuscript on the philosophy of religion, which was already published with appendices in GW 17.
This volume brings together all the other surviving manuscripts and notes for the lectures that Hegel did not give using a compendium: thus, the inaugural lectures in Heidelberg (1816) and Berlin (1818), as well as the lectures on the history of philosophy (1820 and 1823), two fragments on aesthetics, the two introductions to the philosophy of world history (1828 and 1830), and a fragment on the proofs of God’s existence. For several of these texts, not only the reading of the texts but also their structure and dating have been corrected.
Additionally, the volume includes lecture manuscripts of Hegel that have only survived in secondary transmission: a fragment on the philosophy of world history, the lectures on the proofs of God’s existence, and a fragment on the cosmological proof of God’s existence.
Simon Gros 
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